The funeral of Ali Khamenei is going to come at a bitter time for Iranians everywhere. They don’t want to see him go, lost to time and now history and useless to them and their enterprise as a nation.
Khamenei studied their status at great length. He made amends where he could and lifted the esteem of their ways in parts of the world.
The years to come aren’t without a new Supreme Leader, but the changeover won’t be easy. The manner of his assassination is of no small concern. It will build as anger as Mojtaba moves on.
The US aside, a national recovery will bring about similar calls for immediate help and development on a large scale. It may not happen, because matters in Iran don’t unfold in this way at all.
Protests aren’t the point. Patient, quiet requests in the Islamic country are. The prayers of the hopeful, the saintly will be directed in this way, too. Actually, a religious bloc wants to see religious duties fulfilled, for their own betterment.